3 teens on Facebook hit list killed in past 10 days

Three teens who were on a 69-name hit list posted on Facebook have been killed in the past 10 days in a southwestern Colombian town, officials say....

Is America ready to admit defeat in its 40-year war on drugs?

Cartel gunmen broke into the El Aliviane drug rehabilitation centre, lined 17 young people against a wall and cut them down with a fusillade of machine-gun fire..

7 police officers assassinated in Tijuana; 3 others wounded

Seven police officers were assassinated in about an hour's time in what authorities said Tuesday was a coordinated effort that followed months of relative calm in a border city stricken by drug-fueled violence. Three officers were injured...

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ALABAMA APARTMENT: 5 Dead Men. Bound, Gagged, Throats Cut. Mexican Cartels Come to America.. WARNING GRAPHIC..

The five dead men lay scattered about the living room of one apartment in a complex of hundreds.

Some of the men showed signs of torture: Burns seared into their earlobes revealed where modified jumper cables had been clamped as an improvised electrocution device. Adhesive from duct tape used to bind the victims still clung to wrists and faces, from mouths to noses.

As a final touch, throats were slashed open, post-mortem..

WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHS. THINK TWICE: The Drug Murders in Mexico, now Coming to the U.S.


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7,337 Drug war related deaths. Mexican Police now run across border into U.S. to claim "Asylum". WARNING - DISTURBING PHOTOS

WARNING: CONTAINS DISTURBING PHOTOGRAPHS: drug wars in Mexico spread across the U.S.

He had narrowly survived a previous "hit", injured by three bullets from an would-be assassin's gun, and did not want to try his luck again. When he fled across Rio Grande into Texas, however, he sought more than just a hiding place - he also filed a request for asylum with the US authorities.

That made him part of an unprecedented new trend: Mexican police officers claiming safe haven across the border in America,..

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Witnesses urge U.S. not to send troops to the border in response to Mexico’s drug war

At Monday's hearing, Sen. John F. Kerry, the committee chairman, said he was shocked that there were killings and beheadings "just a stone's throw across the Rio Grande from where we're sitting this morning."




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Drug gangs have made murder and torture a way of life in Mexico

Armed to the hilt, they came from land and air, determined to restore order to Mexico's most violent city.

Nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers and armed federal police poured into the border town of Ciudad Juarez last weekend. The city - just across from El Paso in Texas - has been ravaged by drug gangs. Just this month 250 people were killed there by hitmen fighting for lucrative smuggling routes....

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Mexican drug cartel violence has now spilled into Texas

Violence from Mexican drug cartels has spilled over into Texas, state Homeland Security Director Steve McCraw said Monday.

"Yes, absolutely it has occurred; there's no question about it," McCraw said after a hearing before the House Committee on Border and International Affairs...

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Mexico drug gangs threaten cops on radio, kill them

"You're next, bastard ... We're going to get you," an unidentified drug gang member said over the police radio.

Sure enough, two hours later the dead bodies of the two named policemen were found dumped on the edge of the city, their hands tied and bullet wounds in their heads.

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Source: reuters

Official: Drug Money Keeping Banks Afloat

The United Nations' crime and drug watchdog has indications that money made in illicit drug trade has been used to keep banks afloat in the global financial crisis, its head was quoted as saying on Sunday...

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New police chief's head left in ice bucket at station

The head of a new local police commander was left in an ice bucket at his police station in the Ciudad Juarez area, Mexican authorities said Tuesday.

El Universal reported that Martin Castro Martinez was one of 15 people killed execution-style in 24 hours...

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Source: upi